A Swedish parliament committee says Sweden should increase its military budget by nearly $5 billion until 2030. The increase aims to strengthen air defenses and bolster the number of conscripts. Sweden recently joined the NATO alliance, departing from its longstanding neutrality policy,
Rishi Sunak is set to pledge to hike the UK’s defence budget to 2.5% of GDP by 2030.
A London council is set to sell off six car parks to its own holdings company, Mercury Holdings Ltd, in an attempt to fill a £32.5million budget deficit. Havering Council, which borders Essex, plans to use the sites for new housing developments
Millions of elderly people will get a pension boost of up to £900 as new Triple Lock changes kick in tomorrow – with a senior Tory minister declaring “we back Britain’s pensioners”. The increase also marks yet another landmark in the victorious
As travel prices in the UK continue to spiral out of control and the cost of living crisis pushes even modest day trips out of reach, Brits in search of a bargain have come up with a crafty hack; going abroad. It
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A major poll has revealed the extent of voter disappointment after Jeremy Hunt’s Budget failed to offer older voters any meaningful pre-election boost. The survey of over 2,000 UK adults, conducted in the days after last Wednesday’s major fiscal event, suggests pensioners
Tom Tugendhat is publicly pressuring Jeremy Hunt to go further on defence spending, after last week’s Budget ignored calls to provide a boost to Britain’s security. Speaking this morning, the security minister defended an article he co-authored on Friday, calling for the
Pensioner groups are demanding “urgent clarity” from Jeremy Hunt over his plan to axe National Insurance. They fear reforms signalled in the Budget statement will “clobber” the elderly. And they warn some pensioners are being forced to sit in the dark or
Two ministers have urged the government to increase defence spending in the face of growing threats. Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a foreign office minister and former defence minister, and Tom Tugendhat, the security minister and an experienced soldier, have broken ranks. The pair published